Arthur Tress and the Japanese Illustrated Book: A Celebration
September 29, 2022 3:00 pm – September 30, 2022 7:00 pm
Hybrid event: Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 6th floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA and on Zoom (Register for link)
Thursday, September 29th
3:00 pm – Opening Session
Rebecca Mendelson, University of Pennsylvania, chair
Ryoko Matsuba, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, “To open or not to open?”
Laura Nüffer, Colby College, “Coming Home to Roost: The Tress Collection Tsuru no sōshi as a Remedy to Tragedy”
Kyoko Kinoshita, Tama Art Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art (remote), “Kaken Research Project on the Arthur Tress Collection at the University of Pennsylvania.”
4:00 pm – Gallery Talks
Introduction of items in the exhibition by catalog editors Eri Mizukane, Nicholas Purgett, and Maria Puzyreva, as well as Caitlin Adkins, Patrick Carland-Echavarria, Catherine Gontarek, Ann Ho, and Derek Rodenbeck, members of the Curatorial Seminars who prepared the exhibition. @ Goldstein Family Gallery, 6th floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library
5:00 pm – Reception
Friday, September 30th
8:45 am – Registration
9:00 am – Welcome
Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania
Constantia Constantinou, H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries
9:15 am – Session 1
Chaired by Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania
Ryō Akama, Ritsumeikan University, “Digital Research Space for Picture Books and Illustrated Books: Effective Use of the Ritsumeikan ARC Database” (remote)
Adam L. Kern, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Stripping Down & Redressing ‘Haiku’ in Erotic Prints (Shunga)” (remote)
Ellis Tinios, University of Leeds, “From Artist’s Sketches to Printed Image: An Examination of Isai gashiki shita-zu” (remote)
10:30 am – Coffee Break
10:50 am – Session 2
Chaired by Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania
Ann Sherif, Oberlin College, “Who Reads Filial Piety Books? The Case of Ehon kobun kōkyō in the Tress Collection”
Andrew Gerstle, SOAS University of London, Emeritus, “Kamigata Surimono and the Performing Arts”
Satoko Shimazaki, University of California, Los Angeles “Early Modern Print and the Voice of the Theater” (remote)
12:10 pm – Lunch Break
1:10 pm – Keynote Speech
Introduction by Frederick Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania
Peter Kornicki, Cambridge University emeritus, “From Ashmead to Tress: The Secrets of the UPenn Collection of Japanese Books” (remote)
2:25 pm – Break
2:30 pm – Session 3
Chaired by David Spafford, University of Pennsylvania
Shigeru Oikawa, Japan Women’s University, Emeritus, “Kyôsai hyakki gadan in the Arthur Tress Collection”
Jeannie Kenmotsu, Portland Museum of Art, “Flowers, Birds, Insects, Fish: Umi no sachi in the Tress Collection”
3:30 pm – Coffee Break
3:50 pm – Session 4
Chaired by Erin Schoneveld, Haverford College
Michael Emmerich, University of California, Los Angeles, “The End of Kusazōshi” (remote)
Alessandro Bianchi, Bodleian Library, “Japanese Illustrated Books and Orientalist Bookbinding: The Case of the ‘Gillet’ Covers”
Amaury A. García Rodríguez, Director del Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México, “Selling and Collecting Japanese Illustrated Books in Mexico at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: José Juan Tablada”
5:30 pm – Closing Event
Remarks by Constantia Constantinou, H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of the Penn Libraries
Collector and photographer Arthur Tress (remote) and Julie Nelson Davis, Exhibition Curator and specialist in ukiyoe, Penn History of Art, in conversation